Young Women are Clueless Followers of What's Popular with Boys Says... Gloria Steinem?!?

“Women get more radical as we get older,” she said, explaining that women lose power as they age while men gain it, and feeling oppressed radicalizes you. Steinem did not explain why she felt Clinton was a more radical choice for the nomination than Sanders. Instead, the activist who once declared Sanders an “honorary woman” told Maher, “When you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie?'” Maher immediately realized her statement would be a controversial one — and, indeed, it has already drawn anger from young, female Sanders supporters on social media.

"Steinem did not explain why she felt Clinton was a more radical choice for the nomination than Sanders." Nice.

I really went to watch this video because it was advertised as having her talk about Islam and women with Mahr, who is not a nice guy but is at least a consistent critic of religious extremism in any form. It's there (scroll to 7:10), but along the way you get insights like this one and "home, actually, is the most dangerous place for women." Well, and everyone else: we spend most of our time there. Also: "All monotheism is a problem.... I can't handle any monotheism." Well, OK, but you should probably read Avicenna... and Plotinus... and Plato on Parminides... all of whom reason to it, three of them well before monotheism was a major force in the world. We also learn from Gloria Steinem, by the way, that Mohammed's first wife was a "real estate agent."

Mahr comes out swinging, as much as one honorably can against a lady of her age, and gets her to admit that for everyone who was on the side of civil rights in the '60s, anti-shariah-law should be the cause of the current age. That's huge.

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I would reverse Steinem. The boys at my college adopted feminism because chicks dug it.

As for radicalising as one gets older. Well yeah, if you have no children or mate, nor any organised group that you are beholden to and have historical attachment to the members, and you make your living being one of the speakers on the far edge of some issue, you might just naturally become more radical, sure. The rest of us, who have lives connected to other people, are more likely to moderate.

I would reverse Steinem. The boys at my college adopted feminism because chicks dug it.

No, that's totally right. The young men I know are completely devoted to 'virtue signalling' their embrace of feminism because it's what the girls like. Or think they like. Or think they think they like. I notice it doesn't really avail these young men with the young women.

A woman who does not vote for Hillary has a "special place in Hell" according to former Clinton Secretary of State Albright. My wife is particularly exasperated with this tribalism nonsense. She assures me that her ovaries don't dictate who she votes for, and get aggravated at friends who think that they should. And it goes hand in hand with the accusation that men who favor Bernie Sanders only do so because they're misogynists.

Left out of all of this, of course, is Carly Fiorina. But that's because she's a gender traitor and "not a real woman".

I like Fiorina more and more, but that's to be expected -- she was a philosophy and Medieval studies major. :) I'm not sure she's qualified to be President as her very first public office, but she's definitely smart and has a fun sense of humor.